ReReRescheduled birthday

Soooo....after Thursday, we decided to Rerereschedule  his party back for Saturday, and whoever decided it was worth driving in rain for, would come..and those who didn't... didn't. simply put. By Friday, I had been on medicine for 24 hours, my was just about healed.. yet, what happens Saturday? You guessed it, NOT only was it WORSE then the day before.. I had it in BOTH eyes!!!

 

 Party canceled AGAIN. my heart was shattered! Because this time, there was no rescheduling again. So much money, time, preparation went into everything.. and yet no one got to enjoy it. However, the show must go on, so Josh and I did the best we could to give our Jai Jai a party just with our little family. So after lunch, we snacked on a veggie trey.. and then cut the cake..

 

 

 Not to awful being my first time using fondant, and it sitting in the freezer for 48 hours, then was taken out and it started to sweat/color smear, so I had to put it back in fridge, LOL learned ALOT by making this cake.

 Party favors, that I handed out to neighbors ha.

 Jai really enjoyed his cake... and I must admit, this was the FIRST birthday party that I actually enjoyed as well. No hectic chaos, no pleasing guest, just me in my jammies, on the back porch enjoying watching our baby enjoy his day.

 After cake.. the boys played in the rain.. daddy set up a at home water park, and they playyyyeeddd for the longest time! ( that's one way to avoid bringing the cake mess indoors haha..)

I can not begin to tell how much I adore these two boys. They are both growing far to quickly for my liking, and days like today mean the world to me. NO things didn't go as planned, but it was with out doubt one of the fondest memories we've made so far. A rainy day, spent at home, devoted to nothing but fun, and kids, eating junk, playing in the rain, lots of laughter, giggles and smiles. Life doesn't get much better than this!

Happy Birthday Party Day to the sweetest little Jai butt in the whole entire world! :)

pink eye epidemic

 
 
 

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 The pink eye epidemic continues.... and seriously I could not be more upset with the timing! Both boys have been 100% clear since Monday( it started Friday). I was feeling so thankful for the clear up, since due to the weather this weekend, we moved Jai's party up til today(fourth of july). It was conveniently a day that everyone had off& everyone seemed as to have no plans.. so why not? Yesterday(Tuesday), Josh woke up with pink eye. WTF. really? all the cleaning I did this weekend, and again Monday when the germ appeared to be gone, then out of the blue that! ....we started giving Josh drops right away, so he'd had the antibiotic for 24 hours prior to the party... and not be contagious... yeah well... Wednesday came, and everything for Josh was looking really good..PRAISE GOD.

Then the day of the party(Thursday July 4th).. I wake up like this.. REALLY????

More..from my broken hearted on independence day...

As most of you know, we rescheduled Jai's party due to the rain storms that were headed our way, so the new date fell on independence day. I went to bed around 2:30 am after setting everything up for his party the following morning. Only to wake up to the dreaded Pink eye. I was so so so broken hearted to have to cancel his party again, but I couldn't take the risk of infecting one else.

we decided we'd still give him his present since it was out on the bricks, and bout boys had already taken such interest in the big green box, and we threw everything else in the freezer until we decided if we would try to RE RE schedule.

Here are some pictures of Jai opening his present....

                                                        look how big my baby looks!

 

 

Both of my kids are such water babies! They would stay in water if they could.. no fear when it comes to water, they never get tired of it.. just completely LOVE anything that has to do with water. SO this present was prefect for Jai Jai.

                                                        lol trying to drink the water...

 Meanwhile, my other water baby was in the pool across the street... he literally swam from sun up to sun down on  July 4th.

                                                      his best friend Brian..haha

 && Jai did a little swimming too!

 

I stayed away from the crowds, and slept a crap ton. yippy happy fourth to all!

 

Pink eye lives on...

I had a gut feeling that Jai' was doomed to get pink eye. :( Its so difficult to keep the boys apart, and not basically ON TOP one another,(literally most of the time). Julian seems to be on the tail end of his and sure enough, Jai started with it... & its only got worse. And today was the day of his 1 year pictures... :(

not to meantion, he is cutting 2 top teeth, having tons of soiled diapers(as always when he teethes), which is causing a rash... so we are using disposables most of the time now, and praising coconut oil.

 .. it was prolly one of the most difficult days for our family in a long time. Two very cranky kids..

 

however you cant tell can you? I am in no way a photographer...nor am I trying to be. I am just a mom wanting bday pics of my baby boy. But i just couldnt bring him to heidis a d takethe chance   of  spreading the germ to her kids/-

or/ clients....so we stayed local and got a few done.

 

 

 

 This is only a few of the 100 I took. I may post more later.....& might I add... Despite how happy he was while I snapped a few pictures- this is what was going on

Doggie Bag?

Nothing about this day came easily, starting from OPENING our eyes. Opening my eyes, is never easy- but today was especially difficult for my dearest sugar baby. me, struggling to open my eyes, stayed in bed for a extra hour, all while daddy woke up with Juju. He had to pick eye boogies from Ju's eyes, because his eye lashes were fused together. A hour later when I woke, I didn't know anything about the boogie picking, but asked Julian to come closer, because his eyes looked fonky. After hearing what Josh had to do a hour prior, I had a sneaky suspicion of what we were dealing with. I gave it a little while, hoping it was a fluke, or allergies.. but nope.. things only progressively got worse! Strings of gunky, fonky covered his eye ball, and began weeping out the corners. After hearing his pedi couldn't see him, we went to the optometrist, for the walk in hours. talk about a night mare to do alone with two cranky, kids who missed their naps. After sitting there for two hours we were finally seen, and sure enough, Julian has pink eye in both eyes. we came home, both boys lounged, as well as myself. Daddy came home early this Friday, thankfully... and we ordered out,  since dinner never jumped out the freezer to cook itself. humppsh.

Dinner was consumed with lots of whinnying, and eye rubbing. Jai' (tired.. hope that's the only reason) and Ju.. well because he is simply miserable. Nike is spending the night with us, as her lucky 'masters' are in Destin again. :) We love having her, and I have a good feeling she is pushing the boundaries of these non pet owning humans. LOL seeing what all she can get away with. For instance, the empty 'doggie bag' Box was still on the table from our delivery dinner. I was taking a test online, josh and Julian engaged in transformers, and jai asleep.. Julian comes telling us ' come see, some see.. you have to see what the pup is doing..' I don't jump since I am taking a ONLINE timed test.. so im trying to get joshs attention, to tell him to listen to Julian, and sure enough.. Nike was on top the table licking the ketchup and left over fries out the doggie bag. Irony. Guess they don't call it a doggie bag for nothin'.

Then it was bath time.. I threw Jai in first, because poor baby wasn't going to make It much longer... we did a quick bath, with little play time. I turn around to get a towel for him, and little turn right back around to find the water brown and full of poop. BLAHHHHHHHHHH. had to drain, wash tub, rewash baby.. and then try all over again to get him down for bed. By now he is a basket case, and wanting his BAAAAAAAAAA-BAAAAAAAAAAAAA(bottle).. at which he wasn't in fact receiving for the first time in a year! This was the planned weekend to break the baby of the bottle. .. SOooo said prayers, and into bed with his CUP. walk out. silence.. 5 minutes later, crying. more crying. Not screaming, not a in pain cry.. but the 'im annoyed. Come get me' crying. I assumed it was because of the bottle thing.. so I wait a minute before jumping to go sooth him. just to walk in and see he's got his leg stuck in the slacks of the crib. Poor babyyyy! Of course this is the first time this happens, so I wouldn't have ever thought that's why he was crying. I simply felt awful!

ANd.. that wasn't the end of the crying for the night. More, because then Julian needed more drops for his eyes, which he says hurts, burns and itches. Poor bubba... but his little eyes look awful, and need to get better.. so we do what we have to do to nurse him to good health...2 books and snuggle later.. both kids are finally asleep...leaving two tired parents, with headaches, and who want nothing more than bedtime themselves.

so. Goodnight. :)